We believe in God,
who, in his Son Jesus Christ,
has come among us to defeat the power of sin
and the fear of death.
We believe in God the Holy Spirit,
poured out on the Church
to assure it of the presence and power
of the risen Christ.
We believe
that before time was, God is;
and that when history shall be ended and the universe scrapped,
God is,
ever the same loving Father
who has stooped to include us, through Christ,
in His everlasting purpose.
We believe
that God rules the future as well as the past,
and that nothing takes Him by surprise.
Changing times
can change the way God’s truth has to be told
– and no human words have ever told it right.
But truth is not in human telling.
The truth is Christ
and our hope is Christ.
In Him we hope,
though all else change,
though all else be taken from us.
We trust Him
to guide us and the Church
to what we must become;
and we trust Him for strength
to do what we and the Church must do.
Our hope is in God
who raised Jesus Christ from the dead
and calls us to new life in Him.
Our hope is in God
who made the universe of space and time
and will replace it with eternity.
Our hope is in God
for today,
for tomorrow,
and for ever.
To Him be glory.
AMEN.